Hannah Arendt, On Violence : Simone Weil, The Iliad, or The Poem of Force : Svetlana Alexievich, Boys in Zinc : Susie Linfield, The Cruel Radiance : Virginia Woolf, Three Guineas : - Prints from Francisco Goya, The Disasters of War .

People are obsessed with the short-term effects of Covid, prioritising them over the longer-term impacts. “It was just like a minor cold, really”, they say, perhaps not realising that even mild cases of Covid have been shown to cause lasting cognitive impairment. But I also take exception with this comparison to the common cold. Because, for me, a simple cold led to lifelong disability and severe chronic health problems.

October is here again and it is time to welcome our new cohort - Class 2025 - of the MSc in International Health and Tropical Medicine. We met all 19 students of the current cohort last week on the 1st and 2nd of October as they went through the now customary laptop setup for the Open and Reproducible Science in R module.

Video: Dr Matt Boyd presents highlights of NZ’s vulnerability and resilience to nuclear war and other global catastrophes. You can download a PDF version of this presentation to access all links. Blog Summary/TLDR The CSER Conference On the 17–18th Sept 2024 I joined a diverse set of researchers and analysts converging on the University of … Continue reading "Lessons from the Cambridge Conference on Catastrophic Risk 2024"

We are excited to announce that the second edition of Geocomputation with R is (almost) complete. It took us about three years to update and improve the book. This blog post summarizes the process and lists things we added and changed.

The Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF) Event Fellowship program aims to promote diverse participation at events promoting open-source bioinformatics software development and open science practices in the biological research community.

Who we give prizes to is more a matter of sociology than science. Good science is a prerequisite, but after that it is a matter of which results we value in the here and now. Results that are guaranteed to get a Nobel prize, like the detection of dark matter, attract many suitors who pursue them vigorously. Results that come as a surprise can be more important than the expected results, but it takes a lot longer to recognize and appreciate them.

Save the date! This announcement was originally written by The Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences / À vos calendriers! Cette annonce a été rédigée à l’origine par la Fédération des sciences humaines. Canadian Symposium of Scholarly Journals From the emergence of digital publication to the rise of open access, scholarly communications have undergone deep and far-reaching change in the last 30 years.

In this blog, I offer an autoethnographical account of what it means for TV scholars to take part in the conference continuum, which I argue is both familiar and strange in every iteration. Whether you are an ardent follower of certain large-scale conferences, or a serial “dipper in” to a plethora of small-scale events, you might not realise how to “find your fit” – when you turn up, dust off your boots, and reach for the microphone or

Disclaimer: This blog post is derived from the conference presentation titled “(A)Sexual or (De)Sexual (Re)presentations of Childhood: Tracing Split Attraction Model in Big Mouth (2017-2024)”, at the Queer Children’s Film and Television Symposium 2024.

This seminar aims to explore TV-series at their intersection with philosophy. As a newer sibling to the sub-discipline of film-philosophy, TV-philosophy neither reduces television series to illustrations of pre-existing ideas, nor does it simply offer a ‘philosophy of’ a given series by exploring it from a range of philosophical angles. It rather sees TV series as capable of expressing thought through their specific forms.